Ok, forgive my newbiness, but I have tried to follow your instructions below, but still have problems. The first is that on the packages.debian.org I can only find ncurses, not libncurses... so I went with that... seemed to extract a properly named archive, so I assumed I was on the right track there. Next, I'm having prolems with the digest md5 stuff...

"Edit the file
and take your MD5 digest instead of the original one (there are only two lines of md5 - one for the patch and one for the ncurses package)"

Which file am I supposed to edit, exactly? I edited the digest-ncurses-5.2.20020511, replacing the new md5 value for the new debian ncurses package, but emerge still tells me that I have the wrong md5 value for the ncurses package...

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help!

-Kimball Larsen

Stummel wrote:

Hi *,
the following worked for me:

in short:
get the source package from debian and use it instead.

in long:
emerge system if it failes do the following:

if you've got a debian box: apt-get source libncurses, or go to www.debian.org)

I am having the same problem (lack of dependency on bzip2), but with a different initial symptom, where the c++ part of ncurses complains about not being able to find a vsscanf() declaration. emerging bzip2 before emerging system seems to have fixed the problem.

I thought I'd just let other folks know since I ignored this post for a while because I didn't have the same symptoms, even though it was the same package that was complaining._________________Bitt